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Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter and Art theorist active in New York City for more than three decades. As a theorist he wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art and monochrome painting.
Born and raised in New York, Reinhardt studied art history and philosophy at university in the 1930s, and began painting around 1936. His aesthetic and conceptual foundations include Cubism, Constructivism, and the austere compositions of de Stijl co-founder Piet Mondrian.
Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter and Art theorist active in New York City for more than three decades. As a theorist he wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art and monochrome painting.
Ad Reinhardt was a prominent artist, writer, critic, and educator who straddled Abstract Expressionism, geometric abstraction, and also early Minimalism.
- American
- December 24, 1913
- Buffalo, New York
- August 30, 1967
Ad Reinhardt was an Abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered around the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism.
- American
- December 24, 1913
- Buffalo, New York, United States
- August 30, 1967
A reluctant member of the loose-knit group of artists who would become known as the New York School, Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) has proved difficult to place within the shifting landscape of mid-twentieth-century abstract American art.
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Ad Reinhardt was one of the few members of the American Abstract Artists who began his artistic career as an abstract painter. The son of socialist parents, Reinhardt also had leftist sympathies and belonged to the Artists' Union and the left wing American Artists' Congress.
